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WAR IN IRAQ
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checkpoints was killed in a
Legislators looking for ways to fund public schools
Sunni Triangle after attacks in
They’ve got two big incen-
See IRAQ on Page 6A
But the uncertainty is strik-
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Lawmakers
administrators will be busy
See SCHOOLS on Page 3A
Fond farewell
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TAILOR-MADE
■ Society to help
locals join clubs
■ Gambling, cigarette
tax among options
BAYTOWN — Later this
month, residents will have the
opportunity to meet with offi-
“ Schools really believe the
answer is more money, more
■ 2 crew members
reported missing
Featured organizations are the Revolution, Daughters of the
Sons of the Republic of Texas, American Revolution, Sons of
Yao breaks out of his shell
to score a career-high 37
points against the Magic
Sunday night in Orlando. The
Rockets topped the hapless
Magic 9989.
SEE PAGE IB
BAYTOWN — Baytown resi-
dents Nancy and David Chappell
thought they were going to
attend church and maybe go out
to eat Sunday. Little did they
know there would be cake, good-
ies, punch and coffee after the
morning worship service at First
Christian Church — just for
them.
neighbors — a surprise party.
“It’s the only way they’ll let
“It was a very good surprise,”
said David Chappell, who retired
from ExxonMobil in 1996 and is
said.
It was the fifth helicopter
crash in Iraq this month—three
of them due to hostile fire.
U.S. troops arrested nearly 50
By MEREDITH DARNELL
The Baytown Sun
By LAUREN SALLEE
The Baytown Sun
By PAUL GARWOOD
The Associated Press
By APRIL CASTRO
The Associated Press
Seeking Citizen of the Year nominations
The Baytown Sun continues its annual tradition to seek out and
recognize Unsung Heroes and one outstanding Citizen of the Year
from our community. Help us by nominating worthy friends, neigh-
bors and relatives who deserve recognition for accomplishments
and contributions to the greater Baytown area.
NOMINATION FORM on PAGE 5A
Local heroes
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U.S. helicopter
crashes inTigris
Baytown Sun photo/Carrie Pryor-Newman
Robert E. Lee High School seniors go “fishing" for prom funds Fairgrounds, with serving hours from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to
as they prepare for the school’s Fish Fry on Jan. 30. From left 6 p.m. Delivery also is available. Tickets are $7, and plates
are Casey Craig, Jose Luna, JaRon Sims, Mallory Platz, Josh include two pieces of fish, cole slaw, potato salad, bread and
Sandoval, Jerena Bougouneau and Liberti Plake. The event, an cookies. Tickets can be purchased from any Lee High School
annual fund-raiser for the senior prom, will be at the Baytown senior.
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The Chappells’ daughters also Baytown Sun photo/Meredith Darnell
came out for the party — Linda LONGTIME BAYTOWN RESIDENTS Nancy and David Chappell will
“If they’re going to do finance system before he calls
tives to do something by this something positive for. us,
spring — an approaching new i
Christian Church on Sunday. The couple is shewn at the reception
See FAREWELL on Page 6A with friends Lonnie and Clovis Kelly, second and third from left.
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don’t think it would hurt for Texas, the Former Texas Rangers
Official: Lack off WMD
requires review
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.
intelligence agencies need to
explain why their research indi-
cated Iraq possessed banned
weapons before the American-
led invasion, says the outgoing
top U.S. inspector, who now
believes Saddam Hussein had
no such arms.
“I don’t think they exist,”
David Kay said Sunday. "The
fact that we found so far the
weapons do not exist —• we've
got to deal with that difference
and understand why.”
Kay's remarks on National
Public Radio reignited criticism
from Democrats, who ignored
his cautions that the failure to
find weapons of mass destruc-
tion was "not a political
issue."
"It's an issue of the capabil-
ities of one's intelligence ser-
vice to collect valid, truthful
See WMD on Page 6A
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The Chappells, who have been you do something,” he said,
married for 44 years, are both “They don’t like to be the center
Alvin natives and have lived in of attention.”
Baytown for about 38 years.
They plan to move in February.
Because the Chappells have
been Baytonians for such a long active in the Masonic Lodge and
time, their son, Brent Chappell, Baytown Shrine Club.
The Chappells’ daughters also
TIKRIT, Iraq —A U.S. heli-
copter crashed in the Tigris river
while searching for a missing
soldier on Sunday, and the air-
craft’s two crew members were
missing, the military said.
It did not say what caused the
crash of the OH-58D Kiowa
Warrior helicopter, attached to
the 101st Airborne Division.
The helicopter was searching
for a soldier missing after the
boat he was in capsized earlier
Sunday while on patrol. The
other three soldiers in the boat
were safe, but two Iraqi police
officers and an Iraqi translator
were confirmed killed in the
incident, said Maj. Josslyn
Aberle, a spokeswoman for the
4th Infantry Division.
She said the search for the .
two pilots was under way. U.S. drive-by shooting, witnesses
troops and Iraqi police sealed
off the area and established
checkpoints to secure the search
and rescue operation.
U.S. troops rushing to the , „ -, . ., . ,
scene came under “limited and people ^Sunday in raids in the
ineffective small arms fire,” the ‘
spokeswoman said. An Iraqi
policeman manning one of the
for public schools are consid- i
ering state-taxed video gam- they can agree on, school budget.
Republican Gov. Rick Perry funding,” said Bright, an
assistant superintendent for
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party with friends, family and Carpenter of Katy and Laura soon leaving Baytown. A surprise farewell party was held at First
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bling, a $1 per pack cigarette
tax increase and higher prop- preparing budgets for the next has said he wants to see law-
erty taxes for businesses than school year, with or without a makers come to a consensus
for residents. new funding system in place, on how to overhaul the school
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, a special legislative session,
we’d be so grateful, we would He is expected to call one in
school year and a July trial be willing to scramble, I April.
date for a lawsuit brought by promise,” said Cathy Bryce,
school districts challenging superintendent of the ing fear in school administra-
Texas’ share-the-wealth Highland Park school district tors and budget writers like
searching for new ways to pay finance system. in Dallas, where administra- Jeff Bright in San Angelo.
As politicians look for what tors are working on the next
Chapter members will be on (locals) to go back in time and and Their Descendants, the
ters to find missing links in their hand to answer questions about find out their ancestry,” Colonial Dames of the XVII
family’s ancestry chain. the organizations and supply Goodrich said. “We want to be Century, the First Families of
A conference of area represen- information on how to join. available for people to ask ques- Texas, the San Jacinto
Historian Pat Hill Goodrich, tions and if they need help (find- Descendants, Austin’s Old Three
societies will meet in two differ- organized the event that will fea- ing their history).” Hundred, Sons of the American
ent sessions at the Baytown ture background information on Featured organizations are the Revolution, Daughters of the
Genealogy Library on Jan. 31 to societies for Baytonians to join.
offer attendants a chance to join a “We got on Mars now, so I the Daughters of the Republic of
society related to their past. J“’i — r— "r— r------r—n-----
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 55, Ed. 1 Monday, January 26, 2004, newspaper, January 26, 2004; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1185126/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.